Windows Encoder impl via the openh264 crate (statically-bundled, BSD-2): low-latency screen-content config (Baseline/no-B-frames, bitrate RC, BT.709 limited, near-infinite GOP + forced-IDR recovery via request_keyframe), packed CPU pixels (BGRx/BGRA/RGB/RGBA/RGBx/BGR) -> I420 -> AnnexB with in-band SPS/PPS each IDR. Synchronous: submit encodes immediately, poll hands back the one AU, flush is a no-op. Windows open_video factory selects it (PUNKTFUNK_ENCODER=software|nvenc|auto; NVENC arm lands later), H.264-only with a clear error otherwise, SW bitrate ceiling. Unit-tested live on the VM: synthetic BGRx -> AnnexB IDR + SPS NAL. Unblocks the GPU-less capture->encode->FEC->send pipeline. Compiles clean on Windows + Linux.
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Root cause of the Mac "session ended" at 880 Mbps / 1.3 Gbps: the host requests a
bitrate NVENC can't express at any codec level and `avcodec_open2` returns EINVAL
("Invalid argument"), so the pipeline build fails after 4 identical retries and the
session dies at encoder init — before a single video packet (which is why the
client's UDP counters never moved). The ceiling is GPU/driver-specific: an RTX 4090
caps HEVC at ~800 Mbps (Level 6.2 High tier) and rejects above it, while an RTX
5070 Ti accepts 1.3 Gbps.
Rather than hard-cap every build to a conservative guess (which would needlessly
throttle capable cards), open_video now PROBES: open at the requested bitrate, and
step down (codec spec ceiling, then 0.75x to a 50 Mbps floor) ONLY when this GPU
returns EINVAL. Each GPU runs at its own real maximum — the 5070 Ti keeps 1.3 Gbps,
the 4090 lands at 800 Mbps and streams instead of dying. Non-EINVAL failures (no
GPU, bad mode, OOM) still surface immediately rather than being masked by retries.
Codec::max_bitrate_bps is now just the first step-down candidate, not a clamp.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Full project rename, decided 2026-06-10:
- Crates/binaries: punktfunk-core / punktfunk-host / punktfunk-client-rs.
- C ABI: punktfunk_* symbols, Punktfunk* types, include/punktfunk_core.h,
PUNKTFUNK_FEATURE_QUIC guard (header regenerated; cbindgen renames updated, incl.
PUNKTFUNK_BTN_*/PUNKTFUNK_AXIS_* wire constants).
- Protocol: punktfunk/1 — control-plane magic LMN1 → PKF1, nonce salt lmn1 → pkf1.
WIRE BREAK: clients must be rebuilt from this revision.
- Env knobs: PUNKTFUNK_VIDEO_SOURCE / PUNKTFUNK_COMPOSITOR / PUNKTFUNK_ZEROCOPY / ….
- Host config dir: ~/.config/punktfunk (the box's dir was migrated in place — the
persistent identity is unchanged, pinned fingerprints stay valid).
- Swift package: PunktfunkKit + PunktfunkCore.xcframework + PunktfunkConnection
(Sources/PunktfunkClient app + tests renamed with it); build-xcframework.sh updated.
- scripts/: 60-punktfunk.rules, punktfunk-host.service; OpenAPI doc regenerated.
Also: scripts/headless/run-headless-kde.sh — full headless Plasma bringup. Root cause of
"desktop but no apps/settings" over the stream: plasmashell launched without
XDG_MENU_PREFIX=plasma-, so the launcher resolved a nonexistent applications.menu and
rendered an empty menu. The script sets the complete KDE session env (menu prefix,
KDE_FULL_SESSION, session version) and rebuilds ksycoca before starting plasmashell.
Gate: 97/97 tests, clippy -D warnings (both feature sets), fmt, C-ABI harness PASS,
zero lumen references left outside .git.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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